The Nietzschean Verification of the Missing God and Steps to a Completest Self
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This paper aims to present Friedrich Nietzsches critique of Christianity as a Western example that reconfirms the necessity for mans inner development up to the stage of the Completest Self (nafs-i safiyya). With the advent of Christianity and the resultant triumph of its morality of slave (1886, sec. 260), the death of God (1882) becomes the fundamental event of Western history and its intrinsic law so far (Heidegger 1977, 67). The central question is how the West shall return the lost God, and so answer adequately to the drive of the eternal return? Nietzsches answer is expressed within the concepts of the death before death, the man of Greek tragedy, the nomad (traveler), and the overman, while this paper identifies their essence in the teachings of Sufism. The death before death declared by Prophet Mohammad (s), the Sufi exercise Stop, the background of Sufi teaching, and the seven stages of nafs, including the Completest Self, are juxtaposed to the concepts of the German philosopher. It results that according to Nietzsche, what the West should bring from the state of absence to the state of presence is the summarizing truth of Sufism.
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English
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Religious Inquiries, Volume:5 Issue: 2, Summer and Autumn 2016
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49 to 67
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